Lord Hugo

Lord Hugo was a French nobleman and a member of the privy council under King Henry II of France. In 1557, he conspired with the imprisoned Queen Catherine de Medici to reveal that Sebastian de Poitiers' uncle was a convicted heretic and an executed traitor, thus disqualifying him from inheriting the throne; he viewed Sebastian as a weak ruler. However, he later switched sides when it became clear that King Henry would have his way with making his son his heir, ending the conspiracy.